Feedback, Complaints or Problems

Hi.

So I been trying to troubleshoot this myself, with some help from Nook and Sniper, for a good few hours now without finding a permanent fix.

Whenever I run Dying Light 2 and a trainer, regardless of it being on the AIO, trainer manager or standalone. It uses 50% GPU when active on main menu and 70-75% while in game. This in turn freezes my computer up when trying to anything outside of the game.

Tried disabling GSYNC - No change
Deleted my AV completely - No change
Disabled most programs running - No change
Reinstalled and changed GPU drivers - No change
Tried only have 1 monitor plugged - No change
Tried lowering all setting in-game - No change

The only way I have found to fix it is to minimize the AIO or trainer down to tray. Then all PC functions go back to normal and GPU usage drops to next to nothing.

GPU is 3070 and I have 3 similar monitors

Note to add. This seems to only happen with Dying Light 2. I tested a few other games to compare. God of War the AIO or trainer runs at 3.6% GPU usage and barely moves up and down.

Any help to understand this would be greatly appreciated

-SmileyJ

[Edited by SmileyJ, 2/5/2022 12:57:54 AM]

Do you have Gsync or freesync enabled? This can cause a high GPU load

No, this was one of the first things I disabled cause I know they may cause issues. It had no change to GPU usage.

- So this only happens with Dying light 2?
- And only after you activated it on main menu?
- What if you activate the trainer and then switch to the home page?
- What if you activate the trainer and then close the trainer in Aurora?

- As far I have seen during my countless hours of trainer testing. Only this game and AC valhalla has done this so far. But valhalla only raised it to about 40-50% and everything was running fine on my pc

- No, as soon as the game loads the main menu. It goes up to 50%. When I hit active it goes down to about 15% then back up to 50%. This is regardless of it being active or not

- No change on doing that

- Also no change.

Both games run on DirectX12 I think, wonder if that matters. Could you change DX version on Dying Light to a different and see if that helps?

That did it. Thanks you so much. This has been bothering me for past 2 days

DX12 Raytracing - 50% GPU usage
DX12 - 30-35% GPU usage
DX11 - 3-5% GPU usage

[Edited by SmileyJ, 2/5/2022 1:21:10 PM]

Interesting, I wonder if this has something to do with the DX12 exclusive fullscreen. If you have time I would appreciate if you could try with DX12 again but this time with game in window mode and in borderless fullscreen and let me know the results.

Also you said you have 3 monitors. On which one was the game and on which one the trainer? And does it have any effect if you have both on the same monitor vs both on different monitors?

[Edited by 0x90, 2/5/2022 1:45:12 PM]